Ignoring the 800-Pound Gorilla

Updated July 7, 2003 12:01 a.m. ET

Your editorial discussion of the Supreme Court's overturning states' sodomy statutes ignores the 800-pound gorilla in the room: these laws' genesis. "Genesis" is apt, because these laws do nothing to protect the public safety or prosperity. They are purely an expression of religious bias, attempting to force the religious beliefs of others onto consenting adults who wish to copulate as they choose in the privacy of their own homes.

The Founding Fathers were painfully familiar with this kind of tyranny, whence...